iFit Heart to Heart on Weight

 Today is Friday and I did this walk yesterday. This was the final walk in a four part Heart to Heart series. We were supposed to learn more about the trainers and be inspired. This one started out in a parking lot of an apartment complex in Utah. The trainer is Zac Marion. This is the only trainer in the four part series that I was familiar with. I did his Southern Utah Hiking Mini Series. I liked him in that. I found him to be a bit dramatic and annoying in this. I'm so glad this was only a one mile walk. I feel bad for trashing on a guy who is telling about something so personal, but he really was overly dramatic in his story telling. He also said some things that I found a bit offensive in a way. I know he was talking about himself and how he felt, but he was 240 pounds and talking about how huge he was. Well I'm 100 pounds heavier than him so how is that supposed to make me feel if he's saying how huge he was. I started to turn him out because he was annoying me. 

We walked up two flights of steps with him and then down two flights and then down the street. He talked about how that was his beginning and he took control of his life. He took us along the path of his first run and then all of a sudden we were in the woods. It was a bit weird for me. Anyway, I didn't really find him all that inspirational. Yay he lost the weight. I'm thrilled for him, but his delivery was just blah. The walk itself was fine. It was only a little over a mile. I survived and nothing went number. I didn't really feel any pain either. That's good. 

I picked a four part series and I managed to do all four parts in a row in the correct order. I'm impressed with myself. 

iFIt Heart to Heart on Failure

 I did this walk on Wednesday and today is Friday. It was a little over two miles so I had to wake up early! I hate waking up early! I did it though. This walk was in a giant national park in England. There were some animals wandering around and also some big giant rock formations. The trainer was another new one for me. His name is Alex Gregory. I will have to see if there are things he's done that I can do. I found him interesting and motivational on some level. He is an Olympic rower and he struggled with performance anxiety. He would do great in the races with no meaning, but then he would choke up for the big races like the Olympics. He kept at it though and overcame his issues and did well. 

This walk was easy enough. We never went above an 10% incline. My legs and feet didn't go numb and I don't remember back pain. I hate when I don't write about these on the day I did them since I can't remember everything I wanted to say. For example, I meant to comment on the social distancing and mask wearing in the walk from day two of this series.  Oh well. 

iFit Heart to Heart on Finding Meaning

 I did this walk on Tuesday and today is Friday. I'm getting caught up after being behind all week. Monday my hubby had the day off so I didn't want to write after work so I could hang out with him. Tuesday, I went to the grocery store after work so no blogging. Wednesday it felt too overwhelming to have three of these to write. Thursday, I had to work 11 minutes late because I had messed up punching in and out all week so instead of having extra minutes, I didn't have enough minutes. UGH!

So anyway, I did this Tuesday and the machine errored out on me at the end. I got through the entire walk, but then it said there was an error and it could not save the summary. When this happens, I usually do the walk again on another day, but honestly, I wasn't really in love with this walk so I don't wan to do it again. It was pretty much flat the whole way and it was walking around the riverfront in Chicago. It was okay scenery, but the trainer who was supposed to be inspiring me in some way felt blah. I've never done one of his walks before. I think he does running stuff so that makes sense that I'm not familiar with him. His name is Gideon Akande. He talked about growing up with immigrant parents and living in a diverse area. At some point, he went to school in Massachusetts which is less diverse. I know this since I great up in Massachusetts. We didn't even really have diverse food let alone have a diverse population. Honestly, I didn't find him inspiring because he didn't seem to have faced adversity. As a kid people made fun of him for wearing clothes native to his parents home, but he even said that in college he didn't experience racism even though his friends did. I don't really have a take away from this walk. It was easy enough to get through and it was nice that it was only a mile since it's hard to find the time to do two miles before work because I walk slow. 

The screen shot below is what the walk shows on the library. I didn't make any changes so it should be accurate to what I did, but it doesn't have my heart rate. Everything felt fine on the walk. I didn't have any pains anywhere. 

iFit Heart to Heart: On Healing

I did this walk on Monday. Today is Friday. It's been a long week! This was part of a four part series called Heart to Heart where we got to learn more about four iFit trainers. This one was done by Ashley Paulson. I haven't done any of her other workouts, but I've seen her face on a few of them. She does running ones which are not going to happen for me for a long time. The walk was on a Mt. Timpanogos.

The topic of the walk was healing. The trainer talked about her struggles with an eating disorder. Overall, I found her interesting and engaging. I listened to her throughout and did not get side tracked and that is unusual for me. She wasn't annoying or anything. The walk itself was easy enough. We never went over 10% incline and we had some decline parts. My legs didn't go numb. My feet didn't either. I don't really have much to say, but my one take away was her saying that she had to think about forever instead of for now. For me, that would mean something like that Reese's PB Cup would be great right now, but it will be on my hips forever which isn't so good. We shall see if I can use this to help with my motivation to eat better.